Psychoanalysis Books
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R. Bion.
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Marion Milner: A Contemporary Introduction
This focused and thorough book by Alberto Stefana and Alessio Gamba delves into Marion Milner’s contribution to psychoanalytic clinical theory and technique.
The authors offer an overview of... (more)
Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational Neurobiological Perspective
Arnold W. Rachman and Clara Mucci provide a detailed examination of the significance of Sándor Ferenczi’s paradigm shifting theory of trauma, the Confusion of Tongues, and confirm its relevance for... (more)
Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This second revised edition of Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the highly successful practice-oriented handbook designed to demystify psychoanalytic psychotherapy, is... (more)
Tea with Winnicott
Donald Winnicott is currently the most popular author in contemporary psychoanalysis. His writings are cited in bibliographies even more frequently than those of Sigmund Freud. And yet how many... (more)
The Language of Winnicott: A Dictionary of Winnicott's Use of Words
Jan Abram's lexicon - The Language of Winnicott - has proved to be the definitive comprehensive guide to Winnicott's thought since it was first published in 1996, Winnicott's centenary Year. The... (more)
Aggressivity, Narcissism and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
A leading psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician presents his thoughts on the latest psychodynamic developments and insights related to treatment of severe personality disorders. Dividing his... (more)
Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach
Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event.... (more)
An Introduction to Object Relations
Presents a critical introduction to the work of Melanie Klein, D.W.Winnicott, W.R.D. Fairbairn, Michael Balint, H.J.S. Guntrip and John Bowlby. Subsequent chapters concentrate on the practice of... (more)
The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis
This book brings together international contributors to share insight from their theoretical and clinical work with adolescents, considering the different psychopathological responses they see in... (more)
Psychoanalysis Globally Networked: The Origins of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
Since the very beginning with Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalytic movement has been in the sway of strong group dynamics. There have been hierarchies, tensions between subgroups, splits and exclusions.... (more)
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil is comprised of thirteen transcriptions of supervisions Wilfred Bion conducted during his three teaching and speaking tours of Brazil.
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Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games
Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Françoise Davoine, and Davoine’s patients with extreme... (more)
Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021
Margaret Rustin’s writing is characterised not only by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her imaginative sensitivity to the emotional lives of children and young people, the depth of her... (more)
The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations
The idea of The Covid Trail developed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the language of psychoanalysis and system psychodynamic thinking, it seeks to find a way to think about and... (more)
London Kleinians in Los Angeles: Laying the Foundations of Object Relations Theory and Practice
In 1968, Wilfred Bion and Albert Mason emigrated to Los Angeles at the invitation of a group of young analysts to teach and train local clinicians in the British object relations tradition. They were... (more)
The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives
In The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives, Aileen Alleyne explores the unheeded dimensions of individual and collective identity trauma. She expands on her striking... (more)
Portrait of a Life: Melanie Klein and the Artists
Melanie Klein was a Viennese psychoanalyst who extended the work of Sigmund Freud in significant and innovative ways. She lived and worked in the UK from 1926 until her death in 1959. During her life... (more)
How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist
How do you develop a truly rich and rewarding career in psychotherapy? How can you find joy in such painful work? How do you develop your skills and capacities in the field? How can you conquer your... (more)
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman Pick
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter brings together Irma Brenman Pick's original contributions to psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition, she produces vivid clinical... (more)
Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women: Second Edition
The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalytic technique and theories on femininity, sexuality and embodiment. Female Experience presents... (more)
The Work of the Negative
The author draws attention to the work of the negative in Freud, examining aspects such as dream works and the work of mourning. The "work of the negative" refers to how we cope, or do not cope, with... (more)
The Analytic Experience: Lectures from the Tavistock
A useful exposition of clinical psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on how it affects the patient and the analyst. There have been many expositions of psychoanalysis, but none so deeply rooted... (more)
On Freud's Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
In On Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” international contributors from a range of psychoanalytic backgrounds reflect on this key 1914 paper.
Each chapter considers an aspect... (more)
A Life of One's Own
How often do we really ask ourselves, “What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?” In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psychoanalyst, artist and autobiographer... (more)
Streams of Consciousness: Notebooks 1991–2024
Never originally intended for publication, Streams of Consciousness represent the private stream of ongoing thinking that has accompanied Christopher Bollas’ clinical practice and extensive published... (more)
Unlit Corners: Dirtiness, Miserliness, Shyness, Outrageousness, Shallowness, Indecisiveness, Restlessness, and Cowardliness
Unlit Corners endeavours to bring light to neglected character traits which many struggle to overcome. Filled with relevant case studies and carefully crafted psychoanalytic theory, the book... (more)
Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal
Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity... (more)
Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures
John Forrester's passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional... (more)